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13 people are interested
Fundraising Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Reach Out and Read Connecticut and Massachusetts Region
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13 people are interested
Love to raise funds for great causes? We could use your help!
Reach Out and Read Connecticut and Massachusetts is looking for volunteers to help us raise funds so we can continue to prepare disadvantaged children for academic success. At Reach Out and Read we give brand new books to children 5 years old and younger at their pediatric well-child visits. Additionally, our doctors educate parents on the importance of reading aloud daily to their children. Low-income children are at the highest risk for reading and school failure. By working through the existing healthcare system, we are able to reach these high-risk children and families and help to develop the critical skills they need in order to read successfully and succeed in school and in life. Let's set up all of our Connecticut and Massachussets children for success.
We can use volunteers in all areas of our fundraising efforts:
- Event Planning: If you like to plan events, big or small, we can use your help and expertise. Events are a great way to educate individuals, corporations, and organizations on our work and raise funds to help support our mission.
- Cultivate Individual Donors: Prefer to work with people one on one or in a small groups? Then cultivating individual donors is more your speed. We can use help identifying individuals who are passionate about our mission, reaching out to them and asking if they will help support our work.
- Love big business? Corporate donations are vital to the work that we do. We need help identifying and securing meetings with corporations that align with our mission. If you have sales experience or want to be in sales, this is the position for you!
- Grant Writing Experience? We can always use help writing grants!
- Online Campaigns: Are you technology savvy, refer to work behind the scenes but really want to make a difference? Online campaigns can be extremely successful and are a great way to educate the masses on the important work that we do. A creative online campaign could be a fun and rewarding experience.
- Got your own fundraising ideas? We'd love to hear them!
Connecticut or Massachusetts residency is preferred since we are raising funds for Connecticut and Massachusetts but it is not a requirement.
More opportunities with Reach Out and Read Connecticut and Massachusetts Region
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About Reach Out and Read Connecticut and Massachusetts Region
Location:
89 South Street, Suite 201, Boston, MA 02111, US
Mission Statement
Reach Out and Read gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together. We serve children from birth through age five to prepare them with the skills they need to enter kindergarten at grade level, ready to learn to read and succeed in school. The first five years of life offer a critical window for learning, with rapid brain development that does not occur at any other time. Many children, especially those from low-income families, are not read to from birth. Where reading aloud is widely recognized as THE single most important activity leading to a child's literacy success, we work with pediatricians serving low-income communities to encourage parents to make reading aloud a daily routine. Our vision is that one day, all children will enter kindergarten at grade level, reading to learn to read, and with parents who are fully engaged in their children's cognative, social and emotional development.
Description
Reach Out and Read gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together. We leverage two extraordinary forces to improve early literacy and educational outcomes: the power of parents and the influence of pediatricians. The Reach Out and Read model provides parents with personalized, age-appropriate advice about books and reading at every well-child visit from the newborn through 5 years, along with a new book starting at the 6-month visit. Books are used by the medical provider at the beginning of the visit during developmental surveillance, and as a vehicle to offer concrete guidance to parents. Armed with this guidance, parents make reading aloud a part of their daily routines.
The concept is simple. Take a child from a low-income family where books can be rare and parents often too stressed or lacking the knowledge to spend time on reading. When the pediatrician sees that child, she "prescribes" an appropriate book and guides the parents on reading with the child daily. Because the book has been prescribed almost as if it were a medication, parents are far more likely to make reading aloud a part of their daily routine. As a result, young children in at-risk homes can build their literacy and oral language skills earlier and become better prepared for school - as they learn the joy of reading.
CAUSE AREAS
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WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
November 1, 2017
SKILLS
- Grant Writing / Research
- Fundraising
- Community Outreach
- Sales Process
- Sales Marketing
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18